It’s still relatively easy to sign up for a major email provider anonymously.
In my experience, it is actually impossible. Either you get blocked (IP/ASN ban, endless captchas) or it requires SMS confirmation. I have not been able to sign up for any major email provider anonymously. I’m pretty sure that’s by design.
Why? There’s privacy conscious and then paranoid. Using a VPN to sign up to an email provider you’re using to sign up for another website is definitely the latter. What do you think is going to happen?
In my experience, it is actually impossible. Either you get blocked (IP/ASN ban, endless captchas) or it requires SMS confirmation. I have not been able to sign up for any major email provider anonymously. I’m pretty sure that’s by design.
Last I tried Outlook/Office.com/whatever it is now was still possible. Obviously don’t use a VPN etc.
Or just get a burner phone of you’re really that paranoid.
To me this kinda defeats the point of being privacy-conscious.
Why? There’s privacy conscious and then paranoid. Using a VPN to sign up to an email provider you’re using to sign up for another website is definitely the latter. What do you think is going to happen?
I know that my ISP sells my data to third parties, so I prefer not to give it to them willingly. I don’t consider that paranoid.
I made a burner gmail semi-recently (in past 2.5 years) without giving them a phone number, but things might have changed since…